Side collision?

Question

I'm writing a story and need to detail a serious car accident. Could someone help me out with a side collision. I need someone to be fatally injured. What type of injuries could a side collision create? Would the person die of blood loss or something else? I need an unharmed driver (of the victim car) to do CPR on the hurt character to try and revive them. The accident is going to be caused by a drunk driver. I've only had a mild accident where no one got hurt. Would the drunk have to serve prison time? I'm so ignorant of these things.

Answer 1

Okay, short and sweet from the top:
1. A side collision brings massive head trauma (whiplash, broken neck, etc.) and glass shards all in the skin. Broken bones at the impact area (driver side gets hit, the drivers left arm is broken).
2. You can almost expect blood loss in a major accident. That would be the slow, painful way to die. Usually, in a high speed T-bone accident, the struck party's head will go through the window, hit the grill of the striking vehicle, and usually snap the neck if the impact is hard enough.
3. The passenger of the victim car (the struck vehicle) will also suffer head trauma from whiplash, so it would be unlikely that the person can perform those tasks, unless they were pumped up with adrenaline flowing...
4. The drunk would serve prison time, regardless of fault. It is a no-tolerance law...


Hope that helps...

Answer 2

Over 90% of all vehicle fatalities are cause by blunt force head trauma -- meaning the head struck the windsheild, steering wheel, etc. and caused enough skull and or brain damage to kill, (i.e; direct severe brain function, swelling and /or hemorrhaging, spinal/neck damage). Sometimes a side impact will cause severe neck/spinal injury that results in loss of motor functions, i.e; victim can't breathe and heart stops. Therefore, only CPR would keep the person alive until life support systems could be attached at a trauma unit. Your victim could be riding in a vehicle that is not equipped with side curtian airbags (which are specifically designed to prevent this type of injury) with the window DOWN, (with the window down there is nothing to slow his/her head from excessive lateral movement). When the drunk t-bones the car the victims head would be snapped horizontally and downward as his/her shoulder slammed against the door. Grizzley but almost certain death. For an added bit of drama the victims head could actually come so far out of the open window that it leaves an imprint (probably a bloody one) on the buckled hood of the other car.

Answer 3

Fatally injured is dead. What type of injuries do you suspect when you are hit by something large and hard. Try jumping off a building a couple stories onto the sidewalk. No body is doing CPR. It was an accident....the drunk may lose his icense for 6 months. Your victim is still dead.

Answer 4

Intersection injuries are in accordance with what might want to be shown if both drivers declare to have the golf eco-friendly mild. If the different motive force wasn't paying interest, they could okay trust their mild change into eco-friendly. without an autonomous witness, it is going to likely be considered as a 50/50 fault twist of destiny. If there change right into a witness or the different motive force admits to operating a pink mild, they're going to get a cost tag for pink mild violation and their coverage might want to pay on your automobile damages and clinical charges. they received't pass to penal complicated except they were inebriated or on drugs (and this can be regardless if fault is determined). they could be a lot less injured (if injured in any respect) then you definately thinking they're in a SUV and also you're in a compact automobile.

Answer 5

fatal massive head trauma (from reaction of head hitting side window/frame) and lacerations (cuts from glass/broken metal window frame.